Baltimore Police Department

Donna Curry said she heard the knocks around midnight. At her door stood two men in bulletproof Baltimore police vests. They brought a search warrant, one said.

"We invited them in thinking they were the police," Curry said.

A short time later, the men hurried from her South Baltimore home with $20,000 in cash she had borrowed to pay off her taxes, leaving the woman another victim in a long-running robbery scheme allegedly orchestrated by detectives in an elite unit of the Baltimore Police...

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